NYC subway train cake

I made this cake for Maria’s birthday celebrations this past weekend. I used a silicone square cake tin and bake one vanilla sponge and one chocolate sponge using doubled up quantities of the sponge cake recipe from the side of the Silverspoon sugar bag http://www.silverspoon.co.uk/home/recipes/15/fairy-cakes (it’s the most reliable recipe ever!). Once the cakes had cooled I cut them in half to make long narrow rectangles. I then stacked three layers on top of one another and ‘glued’ in place with butter cream. I then cut the final rectangle in half and put ‘glued’ those in place to make the cake a longer more train carriage shape. I then covered the whole thing in butter cream and covered the whole cake in ready rolled white icing to create my canvas.

To decorate I used PME edible lustre spray in silver for the main body of the train. I cut a stencil to help me mark out the graffiti lettering. I then used the PME edible lustre spray in red, pink and blue to do the graffiti. The outlines are painted using Wiltons black liquid icing colour. To finish I painted the windows and details in using edible tints and rejuvenator liquid. This was so much fun to make and it made the birthday girl very happy (as you can see!)